Most people assume strokes only happen to octogenarians, but recent evidence suggests that survivors of childhood cancer have a high risk of suffering a stroke at a surprisingly young age.

In the midst of a growing trend for Medicare patients to receive observation care in the hospital to determine if they should be formally admitted, a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that for more than a quarter of beneficiaries with multiple observation stays, the cumulative out-of-pocket costs of these visits exceeds the deductible they would have owed for an inpatient hospital admission.

August 27, 2015 — Analysis of blood samples from more than 5,000 people suggests that a more sensitive version of a blood test long used to verify heart muscle damage from heart attacks could also identify people on their way to developing hypertension well before the so-called silent killer shows up on a blood pressure machine.

August 27, 2015 — The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling has been used for years to better engineer large machines such as aircraft and automobiles, but its application is now being turned toward implantable medical devices such as stents, stent grafts and heart valves. Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first medical technology that uses CFD to create noninvasive fraction flow reserve (FFR) measurements of blood flow through coronary lesions based on a computed tomography (CT) scan.

August 26, 2014 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report investigations that will be presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2015 scientific symposium. TCT has chosen 20 studies that will impact the care of patients and how physicians think about cardiovascular disease. TCT, a premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, will take place Oct. 11-15, 2015, in San Francisco, Calif.
 


August 25, 2015 — Medtronic announced it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Twelve Inc., a start–up medical device company focused on the development of a transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) device, for $458 million. Many in the industry see transcatheter heart valves as the next major area for technology expansion in structural heart disease. 

August 25, 2015 —  The American Society of Echocardiography Foundation’s (ASEF) humanitarian mission in Hanoi, Vietnam, Aug. 17-22, 2015, used Mindray’s M7 cardiac compact ultrasound system for the mission because of its rugged, compact, fully featured echocardiography solution and the ability to pull together global support resources.
      

Cardiology Update at South Beach: A Focus on Prevention (Mayo Clinic)

August 21, 2015 — CompView Medical announced the release of the NuCART, a turn-key, all-in-one mobile boom system with integrated visualization. The 7-foot-plus booms extend its displays into ergonomically comfortable viewing areas for medical information systems (MIS) requiring fluoro, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), video, ultrasound and robotics.

August 21, 2015 — Loyola University Medical Center is the first and only hospital in Illinois to offer a new, noninvasive technology to test for coronary artery disease.

The technology employs noninvasive CT scans to calculate how much blood is flowing through diseased coronary arteries that have narrowed due to a buildup of plaque. The patient does not need to undergo an invasive angiogram that involves threading a catheter to the heart.

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